Highlights Disruptive medical staff behavior potentially affects patient care. Surgical specialties have the highest incidence of disruptive medical staff behavior. Proper diagnosis and management is key to the mitigating disruptive medical staff behavior. ABSTRACT Objective: To describe the 3-year long experience of addressing disruptive events by medical staff in a private hospital. Methods: The cross-sectional study that was conducted between 2020 and 2022, involved collection, analysis, and management of suspected cases of disruptive behavior by medical staff. Results: Relevant information […]

ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the indicators duration of anesthesia, operative time and time patients stay in the operating rooms of different surgical specialties at a public university hospital. Methods It was done by a descriptive cross-sectional study based on the operating room database. The following stages were measured: duration of anesthesia, procedure time and patient length of stay in the room of the various specialties. We included surgeries carried out in sequence in the same room, between 7:00 a.m. and […]